What is social media? Its Type in detail

Social media is a platform for people to exchange ideas and information, as well as communicate with one another.

Social media is Internet-based and allows users to communicate content in real-time via electronic means. Personal information, documents, videos, and photos are examples of content. Users interact with social media through web-based software or applications on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

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Face­book, Insta­gram, Twit­ter, and YouTube are the most pop­u­lar social media networks.

Ini­tial­ly, social media was used to com­mu­ni­cate with friends and fam­i­ly, but by the time it became pop­u­lar, busi­ness own­ers want­ed to take advan­tage of a pop­u­lar new com­mu­ni­ca­tion method to reach out to customers.

The abil­i­ty to con­nect and share infor­ma­tion with any­one on the plan­et, or with many peo­ple at once, is the pow­er of social media.

Types of Social Media 

Social networking sites

Most of us have heard of social net­work­ing sites such as Face­book, Twit­ter, and LinkedIn. These plat­forms allow us to com­mu­ni­cate with our friends, fam­i­ly, and brands. They pro­mote knowl­edge shar­ing and empha­sise per­son­al, human-to-human interaction.

A social net­work­ing site func­tions as a Jack of all trades. Users can share ideas, curate con­tent, upload pho­tos and videos, form inter­est-based groups, and par­tic­i­pate in live­ly dis­cus­sions. They are designed with the user in mind, as well as every­thing that is impor­tant to them and their social circles.

Social review sites 

What’s the first thing you do when you’re plan­ning a trip or pur­chas­ing a new prod­uct? If you’re like us, you’ll skip right to the reviews.

Yelp and Tri­pAd­vi­sor, for exam­ple, dis­play reviews from com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers for a wide range of loca­tions and expe­ri­ences. This takes a lot of the guess­work out of book­ing a restau­rant or hotel. Are you unsure if it’s the right thing for you? Check out the reviews to find out.

Image sharing sites ·

Images, info­graph­ics, and illus­tra­tions cap­ture our hearts, eyes, and imag­i­na­tions. Insta­gram, Imgur, and Snapchat are social media plat­forms that are designed to ampli­fy the pow­er of image sharing.

Users cre­ate, curate, and share one-of-a-kind images that elic­it dis­cus­sion and speak for them­selves. For your busi­ness, a pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words.

Video hosting sites 

YouTube changed the way we watch, make, and think about video. It trans­formed the medi­um into some­thing more approach­able. Recent advance­ments in tech­nol­o­gy and con­nec­tiv­i­ty have aid­ed video in its final stages.

Cre­ators can use video host­ing plat­forms like YouTube and Vimeo to put togeth­er con­tent and share it on a plat­form that is opti­mized for stream­ing. Because of this, video has become a very impor­tant medium.

Community blogs

Some­times an image or post isn’t com­plex enough to con­vey the mes­sage you’re try­ing to con­vey, but not every­one on the inter­net wants to run a blog from their own web­site. That is a sig­nif­i­cant amount of work.

Shared blog­ging plat­forms such as Medi­um and Tum­blr allow peo­ple to express them­selves and con­nect with readers.